Civil Rights Defenders is an independent expert organisation founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1982, with the aim of defending people’s civil and political rights. Everybody heard about the tragical story of Natalya Estemirova, a russian human rights activist, that was murdered on 2009 because she was investigating hundreds of cases of alleged kidnappings, torture and extrajudicial killings by Russian government troops or paramilitaries in Chechnya....

Playmodes and MID (Media Interactive Design) are both digital research collectives based in Catalonia. They work on interactions between architecture, light & sound, to produce immersive installations thanks to DIY hardware and software developments.
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We were impatient to discover the Ultra-Lab's documentaries Hello-World.cc about main programming tools used by digital artists, like Processing or Open Frameworks.
First episode "Processing" was released a few hours ago. It gathers numerous video artworks, experts interviews and examples. Its point of view is broader than a simple technical explanation or a basic history of a programming language....

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This article comes from the Digitalarti Mag #11.
Segueing from the realm of virtuality and awaiting the fall of yet another ephemeral new "frontier of reality", telepresence is the latest incarnation of media art magic, as it bridges gaps between protocols and devices with various forms of interactivity.
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Ibis turn your dreams into artworks. How is this possible? They embedded 80 heat, pressure and sound sensors in a mattress. Data are analysed by an algorithm, translated into moves and sent to the painting robot. The different states of your sleep become "sleep art". ...

"Show pictures on smoke is a solid idea" is a sentence that must have crossed Tomas Navarro's, Lorenz Potthast's and Fabricius Seifert's minds before they launched their latest own projects. Tomas show a 3D hologram in a smoke halo. Lorenz and Fabricius fullfil soap bubbles with smoke and project an image on them as long as the bubbles float in the air, before they blow up....